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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
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From: marklawrence_lawfirm@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:51:14 -0200
Subject: Dear Friend,
Mr. Mark Lawrence
Address: suite d4738, holograms suites,
4855 Copthal Avenue.
City London,
Ec45 67bn gb
Email:MARKLAWRENCE_LAWFIRM@YAHOO.CO.UK
Phone:+44 70457 50112
Date; 13th -11-2007
Dear Friend,
This letter may come to you as a surprise due to the fact
that we have not yet met in person, please accept my sincere
apologies in bringing this message of goodwill to you.
I am barrister David rockers, a solicitor at law, and the
personal attorney to late mr.andreas schranner. i have an
urgent and very profitable business proposition for you that
should be handled with extreme confidentiality.
On January 12, 1999 my client, a property magnate,
consultant, and contractor with the British water
corporation mr.andreas schranner by name made a numbered
time fixed deposit for twelve calendar months valued at
us$15m (fifteen million united states dollars only) in a
financial and security company. upon maturity they sent a
routine notification in accordance with the company policy
to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month
they sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his
contract employers British water corporation that mr.andreas
schranner, his wife Maria, and their daughter andrea each,
died in the af4590 France concord plane crash bound for new
York in their plan for a world cruise on Monday 31 July,
2000 see the website
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
on further investigation, I found out that he died without
making a will and all attempts to trace his next of kin were
fruitless. I therefore made further investigations and
discovered that mr.andreas schranner did not declare any
next of kin or relations in all his official documents
including his bank deposit paperwork in the financial and
Security Company.
This sum of us$15m I understand was kept in the financial
and security company for safekeeping to enable him have
direct and immediate access to the funds for a contract that
he intend to execute. no one will ever come forward to claim
it and according to the law of my country, at the expiration
of 6 years the money will revert to the ownership of the
British government, if nobody applies to claim the fund.
I decided to contact you to assist me receive his money for
safe keeping and investments on his behalf as everything
will be taken over by the British government as provided in
section 129 sub 63(n), British banking edit of 1961.
this prompted me to contact you. i want to front you as the
next of kin and beneficiary to the late client thereby
making you the legal beneficiary of the sum of $15m million
u.s dollars that is presently in the financial and security
company. i contacted you because it will be very easy for
the financial and security company to believe since they
know me as his lawyer and moreover i am working with a key
member of the financial and security company.
the transaction is 100% legal and totally free of risks as
all modalities has been perfected to ensure the hitch free
success of the transaction. i have also decided that you
will generously be entitled to 35% of the total amount. upon
my receipt of your reply confirming your willingness to
assist me of this transaction, i will immediately arrange
and transfer all the rights of ownership of this fund to
your name to facilitate your easy clearance and transfer of
the complete funds to your country. you have nothing to
worry about, as i will be there to assist you in anyway
necessary with all proper documentation.
if you are interested, send the following information to my
private mail box {MARKLAWRENCE_LAWFIRM@YAHOO.CO.Uk} as
soon as possible so that we can proceed.
(1).your full name and address
(2).your direct telephone and fax number.
(3).your age and occupation
i await your response urgently.
Regards,
Barrister Mark Lawrence
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